E-Cadherin Expression in Squamous Cell Carcinomas of Head and Neck: Inverse Correlation with Tumor Dedifferentiation and Lymph Node Metastasis

Cancer Research

Volumn 51, Issue , 1991, Pages 6328-6337

  Birchmeier, Walter ^a,a   Frixen, Uwe H ^a   Behrens, Jurgen ^a   Unger, Andreas ^a   Jahnke, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; UVOMORULIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ADULT; AGED; CADHERINS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0026322974     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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